Records of the athletic director of the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and its predecessor institutions, mostly dating from the 1970s. The
collection contains numerous files on men's intercollegiate sports, especially basketball,
football, and swimming, which include media guides, programs, schedules, rosters,
statistics, and lists of records set during athletic competitions dating from 1895. The
collection contains 334 movie film reels and videocassette tapes, almost entirely of
football games, dating from the 1940s to the 1970s. A few reels exist for basketball games
and swimming meets.

Other records document awards banquets and recipients of
awards; club sports which were sponsored by the university but did not receive any
university funding; the physical education program; and the building and maintenance of
university athletic facilities, including the J. Martin Klotsche Center for Physical
Education. Records concerning intramural sports include athletic records, rules, schedules,
and statistics. The correspondence files document a wide variety of subjects such as
intercollegiate athletics, physical education, student services, women's athletics, and
university athletic facilities. Some records concern the efforts of UWM and other
universities in the 1960s and 1970s to create an urban university conference, and include
the proposed constitution and operating code; and materials on UWM's violations of NCAA
basketball rules during the 1975 season.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-mil-uwmac0008

The Office of the Athletic Director was created in 1949, with Herman Kluge serving as the
first director. Between 1949 and 1966, the athletic director coordinated the Athletic
Department, intercollegiate sports, club sports, and intramurals, and administered the
physical education program. The athletic director has been responsible for coordinating the
athletic program, promoted athletics program by maintaining contacts with the media,
recruiting players, and fundraising. The athletic director administered the physical
education program until 1966, when it became a separate department.

Between 1980 and 1983, UWM divided the duties of the director between two associate
directors.

Athletic Directors

1956-1970

Herman Kluge

1970-1971

Albert Negratti

1972-1975

Thomas P. Rosandich

1975-1980

Jim Harding

1980-1983

Daniel I. Harris, Associate Director for Men's Athletics

1980-1983

Daryl A. Leonard, Associate Director for Women's Athletics

1983-1988

Daniel I. Harris

1988-2009

Bud K. Haidet

2009-2010

George Koonce

2010

Dave Gilbert (interim)

2010-2012

Rick Costello

2012-2013

Andy Geiger (interim)

2013-

Amanda Braun

Sports at UW-Milwaukee

The Wisconsin State Normal School was founded in 1885. From the beginning the school
offered physical education as part of the curriculum and also extracurricular athletic
activities.

Physical education courses were offered to train students to provide physical training
for their own pupils when they became teachers. According to the Annual Catalog (1903-1904) the students were also schooled in the development
of "kindergarten games." Physical education has been a requirement or an elective in the
teacher training curriculum throughout the twentieth century. The physical training
curriculum from 1885 to 1949 was administered by the Physical Training or Physical
Education Department.

The university's catalogs suggest extracurricular athletics first started in 1885 as
activities of student clubs and societies, administered by an Office of Student Life and
Recreation and funded by student fees. The clubs and societies competed against local
sports clubs and in some instances area colleges.

According to the February 8, 1974 UWM Post, President L.D.
Harvey began the first formal program of intercollegiate athletics at the Milwaukee Normal
School. By 1895 basketball was the most popular intercollegiate sport, and by the early
twentieth century "basketball" and the "athletic program" were synonymous at the school.
The years 1901-1915 produced several state championships for men's basketball and
consistently outstanding women's basketball teams.

The popularity and support for intercollegiate sports, especially basketball and
football, increased when the Milwaukee State Teachers College was established in 1927.
According to the May 25, 1954 Wisconsin State Times, the
football "Green Gulls" had some success, winning several Wisconsin State Conference
football titles between 1929 and 1949. The team consistently placed players on the
All-Conference team.

The basketball team also enjoyed success, winning several Wisconsin State Conference
championships between 1928 and 1955. The team enjoyed rivalries with Carroll College and
the Oshkosh State Teachers College. Games were played at the Baker Fieldhouse, which was
built in 1931. Tennis, cross country, track, wrestling, and golf were other
intercollegiate sports provided by the State Teachers College.

Football was discontinued in 1975 because of high expenses and a long string of losing
seasons. Men's sports, such as soccer, basketball, cross country, golf, swimming, tennis,
and track, have become mainstays, competing at the NCAA Division I level from 1973 to 1980
and 1989 to the present. Men's basketball remains the most popular sport at UWM. Women's
athletics have also grown from their inception in 1885. Women's athletic teams previously
competed in the Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference; they now compete at
the NCAA Division I level in track, cross country, swimming, field hockey, tennis,
volleyball, gymnastics, and basketball.

According to the Wisconsin State Times and the UWM Post the institution has had three mascots and nicknames:
Green Gulls (1910-1956), Cardinals (1956-1964), and Panthers (1964-present).

Scope and Content Note

General Files

Swimming is the most documented sport in this series. Included are general correspondence
files concerning the sport, scrapbooks, schedules, a history of the swim team from
1931-1973 and team records from 1932-1967.

Files on basketball include media guides and programs, schedules, scores, scoring records
and a brief history of the team.

Files on football include an almost complete run of schedules from 1931-1967 and
1969-1971, media guides, and a brief history of the football team for the 1931 and 1932
seasons.

The correspondence files include memos, letters, and some reports usually written by the
Director for the Athletics staff. Some items were written by the Director or other UWM
officials and off-campus individuals. The correspondence files document a wide variety of
subjects such as intercollegiate athletics, physical education, student services, women's
athletics, and university athletic facilities.

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, UWM, Cleveland State, Wayne State University
(Detroit), and other schools tried to create an urban university conference. Records
documenting the effort, including the constitution and operating code for the proposed
conference, can be found in the files on Conference Affiliation, Correspondence, and the
Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Records of the Physical Education Department include minutes of the curriculum,
department, and executive committees; a history of the department; and minutes of joint
meetings with the UW-Madison Department of Athletics.

The files on Rules contain materials on the rules and regulations concerning UWM sports,
and include a file on UWM's violations of NCAA basketball rules.

Other records document awards banquets and recipients of awards; club sports which were
sponsored by the university but did not receive any university funding; and the building
and maintenance of university athletic facilities, including the J. Martin Klotsche Center
for Physical Education; and two volumes of Panther
(1972-1974), a publication of UWM's National Varsity Club.

Detailed information on the organization of Athletics, the Department of Intercollegiate
Athletics, and the Physical Education Department can be found in the reports of the Regent
Study Committee on the UWM Athletic Program, Review of the Administrative Structure of the
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation, and on the Split
Between the Athletic Department and the Physical Education Department.

There are also numerous files on the Men's Track and Cross-Country teams from the files
of John Tierney, longtime coach of the teams. These materials include clippings,
statistics, programs, and photographs of various teams from 1919-1988.

Game Films

The collection contains 334 movie film reels and videocassettes, almost entirely of
football games, dating from the 1940s to the 1970s. A few reels exist for basketball games
and swimming meets.

The game films are on 16 mm black and white reels, usually ten minutes in length,
although there are some three and twenty-minute reels. The quantity and quality of the
data provided in the list of game titles varies because the Archives' staff transposed the
available information written on the film canisters. The staff did not have the available
resources to conduct a more thorough investigation of the games. Reels that were found
after the initial processing began were assigned later reel numbers.

Teams from the various University of Wisconsin campuses are identified by their
contemporary name, not the name of the school as it existed when the film was taken.

Arrangement of the Materials

This collection was received in, and is organized in, multiple parts. Additional materials
have not been physically or intellectually arranged and interfiled, and researchers may need
to consult more than one part of the collection to locate similar materials.

Researchers wishing to view games recorded on 16 mm film reels and U-matic videocassettes
must make an appointment in advance of their visit. Film must be cleaned, repaired, and
transferred to film cores before viewing is possible. Additionally, the UWM Libraries does
not have playback equipment for U-matic videocassettes, and Archives' staff will need to
make arrangements with University Information Technology Services.

There are no other access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to
all members of the public in accordance with state law.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel,
privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin
Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

An unknown individual transferred most of the collection to the Archives prior to 1989.
Athletics transferred accession 1993-005 in 1993, accession 1995-007 in July 1995, and
accession 2000-026 in November 2000. George Bezold donated accession 2008-015 to the
Archives in August 2008. Athletics transferred additional materials in June 2012
(accession 2011-048) and in June 2017 (accession 2016-051).

Web crawling is managed through the Internet Archive's Archive-It services. This series
includes links to both the university's collection and the Internet Archive's
public collection. Web records from UWM are collected on a semi-annual basis. Crawls of the
UWM Web Site may be performed at more frequent intervals in cases of major events, significant
additions or changes to the UWM Website or the websites of schools and colleges, etc.
Social Media feeds are crawled on an as-requested basis.

Processing Information

Lee Fosburgh processed parts of the collection in 1991. Theresa Larson, Jill Bambenek,
and Mark A. Vargas processed the complete collection between June and September 1993. In
August 1994, Meredith Curtis added a 1993 accession of videocassettes to the collection.
In November 2000, Chan Harries added accession 1995-007 and 2000-026 to the collection.
Brad Houston added accession 2008-015 and some media guides and programs to the collection
in October 2009.

In July 2011, Bob Jaeger removed the 16mm films and videocassettes from boxes 6-39 and
placed them with other like materials. The remaining boxes (originally numbered 1-5 and
40-43) were then renumbered as 1-9. The videocassettes (originally numbered 313-334) were
renumbered as 1-22. Christel Maass updated the finding aid to include information about
accession 2011-048 in September 2013. Brad Houston added some material in November 2014.
Christel Maass minimally processed the scrapbooks in accession 2016-051 in June 2017. Brad
Houston and Claire Dinkelman updated the finding aid in April and July 2017 to include information on the Web Series.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and Archive-It Web
Harvesting tools.

Report of the Regent Study Committee on the UWM Athletic Program,
1970

Box
4

Folder
4

Report of the Review of the Administrative Structure of the Department of
Intercollegiate Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation, 1982

Box
4

Folder
5

Report on the Split Between the Athletic Department and the Physical
Education Department, 1975

Box
4

Folder
6

ROTC, 1951-1958

Rules

Box
4

Folder
7

Dean of Men, 1947-1953

Box
4

Folder
8

Eligibility, Task Force, 1975

Box
4

Folder
9

NCAA Basketball Violations, 1975-1976

Box
4

Folder
10

Regulations for all Athletics, undated

Box
4

Folder
11

Self Determination of NCAA Division, 1973

Soccer

Box
4

Folder
12

1973-1985

Men's

Media Guides

Box
4

Folder
13

1978-1990

Box
6

Folder
34-35

1991-2000, 2009

Box
6

Folder
36

Press Releases, 1995-1998

Box
6

Folder
37

Prospectus, 1988, 1996-1998

Box
4

Folder
14

Programs, 1974-1984

Women's

Box
6

Folder
38

Media Guides, 1992-2000, 2009

Box
6

Folder
39

Press Releases, 1995-1998

Box
7

Folder
1

Prospectus, 1996-1998

Box
4

Folder
15

Space Need Study, 1967

Box
4

Folder
16

Sports Brochures, 1952-1992

Box
4

Folder
17

Sports Information Director, 1977-1978

Box
4

Folder
18

Spring Sports Factbook, 1969-1970

Box
4

Folder
19

Student Affairs, 1956

Box
4

Folder
20

Student Appeals Section, 1958

Box
4

Folder
21

Student Association, 1977-1978

Box
4

Folder
22

Student Government, 1955-1956

Box
4

Folder
23

Student Handbook Committee, 1956

Box
4

Folder
24

Student Personnel Services, 1949-1954

Box
4

Folder
25

Student Services, 1975

Box
4

Folder
26

Subcommittee on Fraternities, Sororities and Social Life, 1957

Box
4

Folder
27

Survey of Milwaukee State Teacher's College, 1936-1948

Swimming

Box
4

Folder
28-39

1932-1965

Box
4

Folder
40

1967-1980

Box
4

Folder
41

Diving Programs, 1978

Box
4

Folder
42

History, 1931-1972

Box
4

Folder
43

Scrapbooks, 1946-1949

Box
4

Folder
44

State AAU Championship, 1951

Box
4

Folder
45

State High School Meet, 1938-1940

Box
4

Folder
46

Team Records, 1932-1967

Box
4

Folder
47

WWIAC Championships, 1978

Swimming and Diving

Box
7

Folder
2

Press Releases, 1995-1997

Box
7

Folder
3

Prospectus, 1989, 1995-2000

Tennis

Box
4

Folder
48

1946-1980

Women's

Box
7

Folder
4

Press Releases, 1995-1998

Box
7

Folder
5

Prospectus, 1995-2000

Box
7

Folder
6

Schedule, 1986

Track and Field

Box
8

Folder
2-7

Clippings, 1930-1988

Box
4

Folder
49

Coed, 1928-1979

Box
4

Folder
50

Field Programs, 1979

Box
8

Folder
8

Handbook, 1988

Men's

Box
8

Folder
9-12

1938-1956

Box
9

Folder
1-5

1957-1984

Box
7

Folder
8

Outdoor, Press Releases, 1998

Box
4

Folder
51

Press Releases, 1976-1978

Box
9

Folder
6

Programs, 1940, 1982

Box
7

Folder
9

Prospectus, 1998-1999

Box
7

Folder
10

Schedule, 1987

Box
8

Folder
7-10

Statistics, 1930-1979

Box
7

Folder
7

Track, Press Releases, 1996-1998

Box
4

Folder
52

Undergraduate Professional Committee, 1970

Volleyball

Box
5

Folder
1

1977-1981

Men's

Box
7

Folder
11

Press Releases, 1996-1997

Box
7

Folder
12

Prospectus, 1997

Box
5

Folder
2

Programs, 1985

Women's

Box
7

Folder
13

Media Guides, 1991-2000, 2009

Box
7

Folder
14

Press Releases, 1995-1998

Box
7

Folder
15

Prospectus, 1996-1998

Box
7

Folder
16

Schedules, 1985-1986, 1996-1998

Box
5

Folder
3

Winter Sports Factbook, 1959-1983

Women's

Box
5

Folder
4

Athletics, 1973-1978

Box
5

Folder
5

Badminton, 1974-1977

Box
5

Folder
6

Basketball Media Guides, 1987-1991

Box
5

Folder
7

Basketball Programs, 1981-1982

Box
5

Folder
8

Recreation Association, 1955-1956

Box
5

Folder
9

Tennis, 1974-1979

Box
5

Folder
10

Wrestling, 1972-1977

Series: 2. Game Films, 1948-1979Access Restrictions: Researchers wishing to view games recorded on 16 mm film reels and U-matic
videocassettes must make an appointment in advance of their visit. Film must be
cleaned, repaired, and transferred to film cores before viewing is possible.
Additionally, the UWM Libraries does not have playback equipment for U-matic
videocassettes, and Archives' staff will need to make arrangements with University
Information Technology Services.

Series: 3. Web Archives, 2014-2017Physical Description: approximately 119 captures Scope and Content Note: The UWM Athletics site includes materials for all men's and women's sports, including
current rosters, statistics, schedules and results, media guides, and news. Archived
rosters, statistics, news, and media guides are available for all sports as well. The
site also provides materials on the athletic department in general, including a staff
directory, facilities information, a UWM Athletics Hall of Fame, and department
news.Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements: The records in the Web Archives Series were collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and Archive-It Web
Harvesting tools.

Men's Basketball Files, 1987-2011Abstract: Men's basketball files, dating from 1987 to 2011. Materials include media
guides, programs, game day inserts, stats packets, press releases, and other
miscellaneous material describing various seasons. The collection also includes 320
digital photographs of basketball players, which were taken for the purpose of
documenting graduating seniors. The series is not inclusive.Physical Description: 1 cubic ft. (1 box) and 320 digital images

Accession 2016-051

Scrapbooks and AV Additions, 1947-1974Abstract: Scrapbooks and AV materials dating from 1947 to 1974. The scrapbooks focus on
the Milwaukee State Teacher's College men's track team, dating from 1947 to 1948, and on
the UWM men's swim team, dating from 1966 to 1970. AV materials which are identified
include women's track footage (1974 and undated) and Olympics volleyball
(1968).Physical Description: 1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)